Infographic: Maybe It's Time for A Tick in the Bellybutton Dot Com

Every day I like to check and see what Google Stats are trying to tell me.

Today I was seeing all these things people are using to find stuff on my blog and decided I'd make an infographic out of it. 

So, I took a screenshot to prove, I DON'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP.

People use Bing, Yahoo and Google to search.

They are looking for stuff like birds, flowers, dogs, fish, festivals and funerals.

But, most people coming to Mike's Ryukyu Gallery, today were searching for

ticks on the bellybutton !

Do you think I should grab the domain name

TICK IN THE BELLYBUTTON DOT COM

Before somebody else gets the idea ?




POSTS ABOUT TICKS AND BELLYBUTTONS:


SWISS ARMY KNIFE PRODUCT REVIEW

SWISS ARMY KNIFE, TICK (PHOTOS) NO BELLYBUTTON THIS TIME

TICK IN A BELLYBUTTON (PHOTO) JUST WHAT I NEEDED ! 

VISIT MY HOMEPAGE FOR THE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Swiss Army Knife, Tick (Photos) No Bellybutton This Time !

The good old Swiss Army Knife came to the rescue, again.

Supposedly, I'm home and sick in bed with one of those wicked colds that even

THERAFLU would have a hard time curing.  Honestly, I spent the last 20 hours flat on my back.

When I went to the kitchen this morning for my iced coffee.

ALONG CAME THIS TICK.

He was crawling up my leg, unaware that right there on the kitchen table was

MY SWISS ARMY KNIFE

So, I stealthily slid the tweezers out and grabbed the sucker before he could even figure out where my bellybutton was being kept.

Then, I prompty fried the little devil.

Quickly, I wrapped his remains, still fried to the tweezers, in cellophane.

And, I sneaked out the door under the cover of darkness so, I could come here and take photos for everyone to see.

Plenty of people begged me not to show my bellybutton, anymore.

But, you wouldn't believe how many times a week the search engines send folks with tick-in-the-bellybutton syndrome to this blog.

So, I couldn't pass this opportunity up, even at the risk of being caught out of bed.

I just gotta tell ya

IF YOU DON'T HAVE A SWISS ARMY KNIFE

YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN'T GO PLACES WHERE THEY HAVE TICKS.

One more thing I gotta tell ya.  If I don't get back home and hide under the covers quick, before the little lady wakes up and discovers me missing when I'm supposed to be deathly ill.......

IT'LL BE WORSE THAN LIVING WITH THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST

BYE, BYE !

PHOTO OF THE DAY:  AT THE KIMONO SHOP

The Classic Swiss Army Knife. A Mad Mike's Product Review

Here is a gadget carried in my pocket, most of the time, attached to a keychain.  I've been using these little Swiss Army Knives for over ten years.  I'll start right off telling you this is one product that gets a FIVE STAR RATING from RyukyuMike.  That way, if you have a queasy stomach you won't have to read the whole review and look at all the photos.  Just go to the Amazon Store and buy one.

To give you a sense of scale here's what the contraption looks like attached to my keychain. 

That little cow-bell up there came all the way from Switzerland, too. My Huskies respond to it.

This Swiss Army Knife is advertised as having seven tools.  Everybody knows about the knife and scissors, some of the other gadgets might need explaining.  I pulled out the toothpick so you can see it.

This photo depicts three more tools, all combined into one piece of hardened steel.  That's right !
What you're looking at is a fingernail file, a flat tip screwdriver and a screwdriver that works on phillips-head screws, too.  That's why it's tapered.  I wouldn't recommend using it to try and change the muffler on your car, or anything like that but, the screwdriver does work on an amazing amount of little gadgets. 

No need to call AAA to open the battery box on  Energizer Bunnies with one of these tools handy.

There has been an incredible amount of Search Engine traffic where people have been coming to my blog with "Can a tick get into a bellybutton"?  and "How do I remove a tick from a bellybutton"?  

There was a model's fingers lined up for this part of the photo shoot but, she got a queasy stomach and I told her that's OK.  I still like Ryukyu Rusty's Gal.  She just missed out on a chance to be a member of my Swiss Army, if I ever decide to start one up.  It's not for everybody, you know.

If you have a Swiss Army Pocket Knife and a tick crawls into your bellybutton, here's all you need to do.  Take the tweezers, grab ahold of the little sucker and pull him out.  It's easy.

Doctors, may not approve of Ryukyu Mike's methods but, this is the way I do it when there's none around.

There would have been a few more photos showing how I torch the tick (with a lighter) while holding it with the tweezers.  That's to make sure they don't get on my dogs, or anyone else.  But, I was in a hurry to get two more ticks, I'd been playing host to,  when the first one escaped !

Back to the Swiss Army knife.  The scissors and knife blade are the tools I use the most.  I use them to open snailmail, medicine bottles, "New Improved" absolutely idiotic-any-kind-of-containers or packaging from aspirin bottles to DVDs to freakin-impossible-to-open-with-your-bare-hands packages of frozen food.

The Swiss Army knife will never let you down.  I love it. 

Tick in a Bellybutton (Photo) Just What I Needed !

Oh, baby, you have no idea how long I've been waiting for this. Not just a tick in a bellybutton,  but, two of them.  Not just any bellybutton, either, that's my bellybutton and I can do anything I want with it.  Hah !

The timing could have been better, though.  I just got back in town after spending a day in the hot sun, along with Doc.  We went to a place most Americans call The Cave of the Virgins, to take photos. 

You don't get to go in the caves.  It's a sacred site, Okinawa War memorial and a shockingly, sad story. 

I'll post that for you after I get all my research done and have as many facts as I can possibly gather.


So, back to the ticks.  Doc dropped me off at my office.  He noticed, before I did, the door was already open.  The wife decided to clean the place.  She was in there, tables turned up, swabbing the floor with whatever women swab floors with.  Grr, I wanted to download photos and get developing.  I dropped my camera gear off where it looked like it'd be safe and said "Hi, Sugar" or something like that.

Then, in order not to get roped into a conversation or work, I started doing what any respectable man would do.  I made believe I was doing something important.  I started looking at my bellybutton.

When you find a tick in your bellybutton, it's best not to tell your wife.  Trust me, I know, somehow. 

People even ask YAHOO WHAT TO DO when they panic over ticks in bellybuttons.


Don't panic.  Here's what I did.

I decided I needed an iced coffee.  That was my excuse to go across the street, get out in the sun again, and have a closer look at the tick I spotted.  This way nobody in my immediate family would have to freak out and call an ambulance or have blood pressure going through the roof.

Outside in the bright sunlight I could see a lot better. Ah, the great outdoors.  I hit the jackpot.  There's two of them in there.  Just little guys but, if I take real good care of them, they should grow up in just a few days.  I need them to get bigger for my project I've been planning.

See, up there in Mad Mike's Reviews, I mentioned I want to do a Swiss Army Knife Review.  And I even talked about using it to remove a tick from a bellybutton.  We'll have step by step instructions and photos.  This is the kinda stuff I love to do.  The real deal.

Just, don't anybody mention what I'm working on around the wife, OK ? 

She'll freak out and have me going to the emergency room or have me sleeping with the dogs!

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